When I ran ddcprobe from a console of Puppy Dingo 392 (on a multisession DVD+RW) the display instantly went black and the computer locked up. The power had to be turned off before it would restart. So as an experiment I ran ddcprobe from the console of a 3.01 multisession DVD. The screen went black for a second but then came back, and the console showed the results of ddcprobe.

So does ddcprobe work fine without X running? -- is this a conflict between a running X and the ddcprobe on your video hardware?

Sorry it took so long to reply. It's Christmas, what can I say.

Anyway, I burned Dingo4 Alpha3 to a DVD and booted it in my latest toy. Xorg let me choose 1360 x 768. The icons on the desktop look stretched sideways (what should be circles are ovals) but when I played a movie in Gxine it looked fine.
Ddcprobe ran without a hitch:

I realize that doesn't exactly answer your question, Barry. I originally tried to run ddcprobe from Dingo4 alpha2 but it didn't have drivers for the USB hub and wouldn't save the second session to DVD, so I had no easy way to transfer the results of ddcprobe to this computer. It took a few hours of tinkering to figure out what the problem was and try Dingo alpha3 instead. By then I forgot what it was I was supposed to do.

Updated : same bugs as usual :
gxine crashes or hangs.
cannot full install to disk.

So far, the best puppy : great idea to simplify it !
Maybe some critics :
* windows key should open the menu (you know that strange key).
* make it easier for dev_xxx.sfs to use (right now works not directly if copied to / , must do many steps before ?).
* include sane/xsane per default ?
* remove not used filesystems from grub.
* what's the use of trash ? why not used by default when deleting ? like make an alias move to trash instead of delete.
* are these progs needed ? wavplay, bdb, gtkmoz, nenscript ?
* opening pictures by default with viewer is better than with editor ?
Keep on simplifying : faster and easier to use and maintain
Thanks Barry.Edited_time_total

I've been unable to get the Dingo 4 barebones iso from ibiblio since yesterday, either with browser or with FTP. Anybody else with download problems? Sorry, I posted in alpha3 thread instead of alpha4 thread._________________Pups currently in kennel X-slacko 2.3.2n and 3b6, LxpupTahr 15.02 non-PAE, and trusty Carolina/Carolite (now battleshooters 1.3-vanguard edition R2). All lean and steady pups. Oh, and Lx flavours of unicornpup for fun Edited_time_total

I haven't been able to get DRI (direct hardware rendering) working with Dingo and the Xorg tarball with my ATI r300. The logs all look good, but the glxgears screen is black. So I used Barry's T2 package and rebuilt with the full Xorg modular tree. If I use the X11R7 directory from that rebuild, DRI works fine.

Also, I removed the the pkg_xorg-server.conf and the pkg_xorg-server.patch files from pigglet before building. I noticed the pkg_xorg-server.conf file had DRI disabled.

I haven't been able to get DRI (direct hardware rendering) working with Dingo and the Xorg tarball with my ATI r300. The logs all look good, but the glxgears screen is black. So I used Barry's T2 package and rebuilt with the full Xorg modular tree. If I use the X11R7 directory from that rebuild, DRI works fine.

Also, I removed the the pkg_xorg-server.conf and the pkg_xorg-server.patch files from pigglet before building. I noticed the pkg_xorg-server.conf file had DRI disabled.

Hmm, ok. If you create a DRI PET package for Puppy, then it will need to overwrite the Xorg files currently in Dingo that are DRI-challenged.
I will need to look at those .conf and .patch files next time I rebuild with T2._________________http://bkhome.org/news/

No bug, I just want to ask about the version of ALSA in Puppy4alpha:
a week ago Barry reported that ALSA is from an SVN snapshot (2007-12-21) -
http://puppylinux.com/blog/?p=88
Barry, I'm about to help update ALSA in Pup214R, is there anything about this SVN release that makes it particularly better than ALSA 1.0.15?

Barry, nibl reports that a small modification to the wag-profiles.sh script fixes the problem of not being able to use 8-digit WPA passphrases -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=162684#162684

And Pizzasgood has suggested another Wifi wizard fix –
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=24961

No bug, I just want to ask about the version of ALSA in Puppy4alpha:
a week ago Barry reported that ALSA is from an SVN snapshot (2007-12-21) -
http://puppylinux.com/blog/?p=88
Barry, I'm about to help update ALSA in Pup214R, is there anything about this SVN release that makes it particularly better than ALSA 1.0.15?

mhwaveedit worked swift and fine with a couple audio files (mp3 and OGG), then hanged opening another - which was regularly read after reboot - with very high CPU activity; impossible to kill the process without rebooting.

One SD card would not refresh its FAT even after reformatting twice with GPartEd; possibly a problem with the card itself (though I hope not...).

Generally, however, a very responsive and stable system - SeaMonkey seems a rock no matter what it's handling.

mhwaveedit worked swift and fine with a couple audio files (mp3 and OGG), then hanged opening another - which was regularly read after reboot - with very high CPU activity; impossible to kill the process without rebooting.

One SD card would not refresh its FAT even after reformatting twice with GPartEd; possibly a problem with the card itself (though I hope not...).

Generally, however, a very responsive and stable system - SeaMonkey seems a rock no matter what it's handling.

I commented recently in my blog about the kernel used in Dingo having a problem with updating /proc and /sys when drive partitions change. It would be interesting to see if your problem is related -- and whether a reboot fixes it.
Note, alpha4 is the latest._________________http://bkhome.org/news/

Thanks Barry. I saw your post in the blog, but things seemed a little different to me.

Rebooting Dingo didn't change things, whereas reading the same card with Puppy 3.01 it appears empty as it should - so my card is innocent...

But here too, after unmounting one SD card and inserting & mounting another, Rox shows false contents. However, with 3.01, just restarting the X server corrects this (same behavior from either PMount or MUT - could not try with MUT in Dingo).

I never noticed that before, as I usually access just one SD card during a session. Yep, will download Alpha 4 right now.

the first things i have (microbugs?):
my IDE drive is shown as sda in pmount
the keyboard wizard do not work( advanced keyboard configuration)
also seamonkey does not have a language/content submenu in Preferences
gxine is slow or freezes

these bugs are not serious, of course._________________skype: desafimager